[cvsnt] Re: Deleted files not longer recognized by Eclipse on W2K

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Thu Mar 11 13:55:54 GMT 2004


On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 01:09:20 +0100, Thomas Egli <thegli at yahoo.com>
wrote:

>I use Eclipse 2.1.2 as Java IDE. When a file gets deleted locally, you 
>will see it marked as 'deleted' (the little 'minus' icon) when you do a 
>"Synchronize with repository". This worked fine with CVSNT 2.0.26 (and 
>previous versions).
>
I did some testing with various combinations, and found the following:

1. WSAD/Eclipse is not compatible with any repository using drive
letters.  It just falls over apparently randomly presumably because it
can't parse them.
2. If you don't use drive letters, WSAD/Eclipse is hardcoded to not
allow you to use a CVSNT server (even a Unix CVSNT server).  It even
puts up a dialog blaming this incompatibility on CVSNT.

Basically the WSAD developers *really* want you to use a standard Unix
server - even to the point of hardcoding incompatibility with CVSNT
just to try to force it - the proof being that if you pretend to be a
Unix server the problems magically disappear (and, suspiciously,  it
also works about twice as fast.. ).

2.0.35 can pretend to be a Unix server, if you want to verify it for
yourself.  That's all the WSAD compatibility that will be worked on
from now on.  All future problems with their client should be referred
to IBM or Eclipse respectively.

Tony




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